I must admit that I have been lax in keeping track of what books that I have but have yet to read. As a consequence many of those electronic books go for a long time without being read at all and frequently I have yet to get through some of them at all. I am thinking about a method to keep track of those books that I have on my electronic book shelf but have yet to read - if you keep track of those books that you have yet to read how do you accomplish this? Perhaps a spread sheet or perhaps a database.

I must admit that I have been lax in keeping track of what books that I have but have yet to read. As a consequence many of those electronic books go for a long time without being read at all and frequently I have yet to get through some of them at all. I am thinking about a method to keep track of those books that I have on my electronic book shelf but have yet to read - if you keep track of those books that you have yet to read how do you accomplish this? Perhaps a spread sheet or perhaps a database.

I mostly read series so use fictfact.com for following tbr it tells me where i am in a series as well as when a new book is coming out in a series.
Apart from that I also use a custom column in calibre to mark books read. Calibre can also be used for storing dead tree book data with empty book entries so no need to keep separate tbr database

I'm old fashioned. I have a sheet of A4, folded in two, which I keep in the pocket of the cover of my Kindle.

On one side, I write the names of the books which are on my Kindle, waiting to be read, including some brief notes, such as the year they were written. On the other side, I have the names of the samples that are on my Kindle, including a note of the price and the site I downloaded it from.

I have a Google Doc sheet that I use to track my reading progress and I use the same sheet to keep track of my TBR pile, mostly the freebies that I grab when available but have no intention of reading immediately. Google Docs has some flaws but it is accessible from anywhere I have a data connection and lets me do some fun things.

I set up some scripts (macros) to sort it for me in a few different ways and it's linked so that when I start a new book I can select it from the TBR list and it brings most of the information over to my current list for me to speed up new book entry.

I must admit that I have been lax in keeping track of what books that I have but have yet to read. As a consequence many of those electronic books go for a long time without being read at all and frequently I have yet to get through some of them at all. I am thinking about a method to keep track of those books that I have on my electronic book shelf but have yet to read - if you keep track of those books that you have yet to read how do you accomplish this? Perhaps a spread sheet or perhaps a database.

I have got a TBR collection on the kindle for books I bought but have not read yet.

Stuff I intend to buy simply ends up in my Amazon shopping basket. - I am using paperback editions as proxy since Amazon forces 1-click-purchase for e-books.

All books on my ereaders are "To Be Read". When I finish a book, I put in in a collection entitled "Already Read". When I have a few in that collection, I come over here and add it to my "100 in 2012" list and then delete it off the ereader.

Good point diap. I put together an excel spreadsheet to do this however I do think that Google Docs Spreadsheet is probably a better place for this data since it is on a web site and I can read it anywhere I am.